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Tibet Women
The over one million Tibetan women living at the roof of
the w orld
in China'sTibet Autonomous Region account for 51 percent of
Tibet's total population. Over95 percent of the women are
of the Tibetan nationality and the rest are of the Han, Hui,
Moinba, Lhasa, Nu and Naxi nationalities,as well the Deng
and Shar-pa people.
Women in old Tibet,even up to the 1950s,lived in a society
which was darker andmore brutal then that of the European
serfdom of the Middle Ages.They were referred to as "vjigd-med"
which meant "the most low and degrading people".
Tibet was peacefully liberated in 1951.When Tibet practised
the Democratic Reformin 1959, Tibetan women went from being
serfs and "vjigs-med," to masters of their own countries.
The first generation of women cadres, workers, doctors, teachers,
scientistsand technologists has emerged amongst them.
Striding into the 1980s,along with the tide of China's policy
of opening upto the world,Tibetan women have become entrepreneurs,managers,lawyers,as
well as translators who have a good knowledge of international
trade.Tibetan women have also appeared among groups of Chinese
studying overseas.
Today,Tibetan women are considered "half of the sky" in new
Tibet's socialist construction, and an indispenseable force
in the socialist construction of the motherland.
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